It’s a really good story and the characters are amazing. It’s exactly what you would expect from the title if you’ve played the main game. I’ll continue with the game’s overall story. It’s not something so new that it would attract new players, but the differences make this expansion feel different from the main game and I love the change. While it feels similar to switching blades in the main game, it’s also interesting to see the blades themselves engage in combat.

So while I”m playing as the main character Lora I can switch to her blades, either Jin or Haze, and play as them in combat. The rest of the combat is very similar as each character has three attacks so switching characters switches your attack list. One notable change is that you can play as the blades in combat when before they just functioned as your weapons. So while three characters are fighting you have three additional characters supporting their respective vanguard. In this variation you have a human or blade function as the vanguard of each blade and driver combination and you have a rear guard covering your vanguard.

It’s easy to think that the developers would just copy and paste the game mechanics from the main game onto this expansion however, they made yet another variation of their battle system. We already saw how I loved Xenoblade Chronicles 2, but was this expansion enough to justify it’s own game or was it an over hyped DLC add on? This expansion allows you to see the events that led to the destruction of Torna, the heroics of the legendary Addam and how Jin progressed from hero to villain. For those who have played the main game, Torna is an ancient civilization that was destroyed 500 years before the events of Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Xenoblade Chronicles has released another installment in their amazing franchise in the form of an add on expansion, Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna the Golden Country.

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